off-planet - Stories

This was a story inspired by KC Grim's piece 'A Bastard Named Sleep'. I liked the idea the Dream was personified. I wanted to see what I could do with that idea. So here is my take on it - Dream's World. Here is the world we all go to when we close our eyes and dream. Whether it is a dream of flying or being chased, of new inventions or scary monsters, it all comes from the world where Dream rules. Come visit his world and see what you can see.

His pride at stake, Arensha decided to risk it all! So what if he was to take on the High Mistress of the planet? What he had on his side, no one even believed existed! He would make Ailarha and her followers kneel before him!

Matt has a secret, but as he meets Dan on his first day of university, can Matt keep it quiet?

The Academy, the school of higher learning for all Centurion and Legatio born. Here Jason Argot of the Legatio will learn what it means to be strong of mind and body? Will he be able to fit in with his own kind? Will he ever fulfill his dream of becoming a warrior? Will the love he has so longed for become his? These questions and more await to be answered in this, the second book in the Centurion Cycle.

Ryker thought he volunteered for an experiment that would help his government in a war against an alien planet. He didn't know he would become the experiment, or that he'd end up on a planet full of aliens that killed humans on sight. He wasn't exactly human anymore though.

On a world where both science and magic exist, one is prophesised to come who can balance both. But in order to achieve that balance they will need to overcome their own limitations. Will they succeed, or pay the ultimate price for failure ?

Lonely spaceport worker Devin McSmith meets Bastian Drago, an exotic and beastly alien from the planet Dega, and begins an adventure that takes him to the stars and beyond.

I was a slave. Captured by my uncle, forced into service, and then ... sold. To a wemic. A lion man, one of a race characterized by their vicious actions-and supposed love of flesh.

It would not be my flesh on the menu.

Ray's world ended when Alice died. Now the world is dying and he doesn't care till his daughter shows up and things change.

The year is 2318, and Mankind has gone to the stars leaving a dying Earth. Mankind's descendants now populate the Terran Federation, a group of 200 worlds held together by uneasy bonds. A veneer of calm hides tensions; Man may have left Earth but he has brought most of its problems with him to the stars. The veneer of calm is about to be shattered though, and one man finds himself reluctantly thrown into the vortex, his fate and the Federation's linked.